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The Short Prose Reader

Summary

This rhetorically organized reader, maintains the best features of the earlier editions: lively reading selections supported by helpful apparatus to integrate reading and writing in college composition and reading courses. In working through the text, the student progresses from key aspects of the writing and reading processes to chapters on the essential patterns of writing and then to more rigorous forms of analysis and argument. Each chapter provides diverse and lively prose models suited for discussion, analysis, and imitation.

Table of Contents

Preface

On Writing

I Think, Therefore IM

How to Write with Style

Simplicity

Mother Tongue (Mixing Patterns)

Summing Up: Chapter 1

From Seeing to Writing

On Reading

Volar

Prison Studies

“See Spot Run”: Teaching My Grandmother to Read

One Idea (Mixing Patterns)

Summing Up: Chapter 2

From Seeing to Writing

Description

Farewell to Summer and Its Buzzing Creatures

In the Jungle

Catfish in the Bathtub

My Ticket to the Disaster (Mixing Patterns)

Summing Up: Chapter 3

From Seeing to Writing

Narration

The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl

Salvation

Let It Snow

A Hanging (Mixing Patterns)

Summing Up: Chapter 4

From Seeing to Writing

Process Analysis

Your New Computer

How to Foil a Terrorist Plot in Seven Simple Steps

Camping Out

In the Kitchen (Mixing Patterns)

Summing Up: Chapter 5

From Seeing to Writing

Illustration

Night Walker

What I’ve Learned from Men

Homeless on Campus

Globalization Rocked the Ancient World Too (Mixing Patterns)

Summing Up: Chapter 6

From Seeing to Writing

Comparison and Contrast

A Fable for Tomorrow

Punch and Judy

The Body of the Beholder

Home Alone (Mixing Patterns)

Summing Up: Chapter 7

From Seeing to Writing

Cause-and-Effect Analysis

Why We Crave Horror Movies

The America I Love

Why I Live Where I Live

Who’s Your Daddy? (Mixing Patterns)

Summing Up: Chapter 8

From Seeing to Writing

Classification

Friends, Good Friends-and Such Good Friends

Shades of Green

The American Dream for Sale: Ethnic Images in Magazines

How Do We Find the Student in a World of Academic Gymnasts and Worker Ants? (Mixing Patterns)